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Re: spam relaying by the big boys

  • From: Phil Howard
  • Date: Fri Aug 08 23:19:56 1997

Earlier, Myk O'Leary said:
> 
> Earlier, Jon Lewis said:
> > 
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <[email protected]>
> > 
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to mail.uu.net.:
> > >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]>
> > <<< 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown
> > 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown
> 
> Connected to mail.uu.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 relay1.UU.NET ESMTP
> vrfy fsdf
> 550 fsdf... User unknown
> vrfy abuse
> 250 <[email protected]>
> quit
> 221 relay1.UU.NET closing connection
> -- 

So the PR department got the word out before the sysadmins got the mailbox
created?  So which department is overloaded?

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